ana_imara 's review for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

5.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

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Madness was 10/10! I highlighted and annotated so much reading this book. It’s a multifaceted book in my opinion. While the main premise is about the Crownsville Hospital in Maryland (an asylum). But the author weaves themes of racism, the history of psychiatry, mental health, criminal justice, biography and political tones in a way that I haven’t seen done before. Needless to say, I learned a lot. I highly recommend reading Madness.